European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2022
European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2022
"Rigging the System - Righting the System: Dimensions of a constitutional, political and societal crisis in the United States".
We, Roland Lhotta , Jared Sonnicksen and Julia Simon , are happy to announce that we will be organizing the Section “ Rigging the System – Righting the System: Dimensions of a constitutional, political and societal crisis in the United States (ecpr.eu) ” for the ECPR General Conference 2022 that will take place at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (22-26 August 2022).
Our section already comprises five panels. The Call for Papers for each of them will be open until February 12, 2022. For more information please see:
Why the Founders' Nightmare Came True: Analyzing the Constitutional Crisis of the United States
Panel Chair: Prof. Dr. Roland Lhotta (Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg), lhotta@hsu-hh.de
“I, the People”: Populism in the US as Threat and Corrective
Panel Chair: PD Dr. Claudia Franziska Brühwiler (University of St. Gallen), claudia-franziska.bruehwiler@unisg.ch
Contested Municipal Authority in the Contested Constitutional Order
Panel Chairs: PD Dr. Jared Sonnicksen (Technical University of Darmstadt), sonnicksen@pg.tu-darmstadt.de & Matthew Davis (Birmingham City University), Matthew.Davis3@mail.bcu.ac.uk
The 'dishonest media', a 'woke military', and post-2020 'election integrity' laws? Politicization as the undercurrent of the creeping autocratization in the United States
Panel Chairs: Dr. Julia Simon (Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg), simonj@hsu-hh.de & Dr. Vasiliki Tsagkroni (Leiden University), v.tsagkroni@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
'Just a step to the right'? Assessing the Republican Party in the polarized party system
Panel Chair: Prof. Dr. François Vergniolle de Chantal (Université de Paris – LARCA, UMR 8225), fdechantal@univ-paris-diderot.fr
If you would like to propose a closed panel, please go to: Panel Proposal – ECPR General Conference , University of Innsbruck, 22 – 26 August 2022. The deadline here is February 16, 2022.
